The purpose of this study was to find out what are the information needs of the Nurses and if the hospital library can satisfy these needs, and see how the hospital library reaches the Nurses with their information provision. The main questions are: what kinds of service exist at the hospital library? What kinds of needs have the Nurses concerning the hospital library? How are the needs satisfied by the hospital library? What marketing strategies are used by the hospital library to reach out to the Nurses? Is it enough to achieve the goal? The method in this study was a case study with the emphasis on the qualitative interviews. The study was conducted at the hospital library at Södra Älvsborgs Sjukhus in Borås. The interviews concerned the Nurses views on the hospital library, information needs and marketing.

SUMMARY The purpose of this study was to explore how Nurses in the emergency department experience and cope with stress in their workplace. The study had a qualitative, descriptive approach and was based on nine individual, semi-structured interviews. They were then processed using content analysis. The content analysis of interviews resulted in two categories, "the nurse's experience of stress," "the Nurses coping with stress." Together, the categories highlighted how Nurses experienced stress during and after their shifts. The study showed clearly that all Nurses experienced and coped with stress in their daily work activities..The authors noticed that stressful time for the Nurses were repeated at each session and were similar in character.

The aim of this study was to examine Nurses knowledge and attitude towards HIV/AIDS patients over the world. A descriptive literature study has been made based on scientific articles from the databases PubMed and Cinahl. The authors have examined the sampling and the falling off of the articles. The result shows that the attitude towards HIV patients is different from one country to another. The attitude was affected by several of factors such as experience, fear, knowledge / education and the Nurses attitude and willingness to care for these patients.

The purpose of our study was to establish whether the knowledge about vegetarian diet was enough among Nurses in order to practise professional nursing. We made an empirical study based on a questionnaire. Twenty-one registered Nurses answered the questionnaire that consisted of mostly open questions. The result showed that almost everyone experienced that they gave dietcounselling and many Nurses mentioned that dietcounselling was important. The majority of the Nurses thought that they had enough knowledge to be able in order to deliver a fundamental dietcounselling but nobody considered that they knew much about vegetarian diet..

The aim of this empirical study was to investigate how Nurses on a ward within the emergency clinic deal with analgesia prescriptions and the pain management documentation. The used method was divided into chart reviews and qualitative interviews with Nurses in clinical practice at the ward. This means that both a qualitative and quantitative approach was desired. The results incline that Nurses generally apply to the laws and restrictions surrounding the nursing discipline, as used in pain treatment. Thus they generally fulfill the obligations accounting to documentation.

Nurses in health care have a responsible and sometimes stressful job. Nowadays there?s a high pace in health care where many decisions have to be made during time pressure, a lot of information has to be transferred between health care units and sometimes complicated equipment are used. Cases of mistakes are reported more than ever to the national committee responsible for health care. Many of the mistakes, where the Nurses are involved are due to the Nurses? stress.The aim of this study was to gather information to describe causes of stress in nursing care and the Nurses? experience of stress influence on health care.The method that was chosen for this study was a literature review where scientific, critically reviewed articles were analyzed.  The analysis resulted in two main themes.

This study is an attempt to examine the information needs and use in everyday tasks inthe work environment of community health Nurses. The purpose of this paper is double toexamine the information need and use of the community health Nurses and to test and validatea method and a theory for the studying of information need and use in workers everydaytasks adapted from Byström and Järvelin (1995). Most of the data were collected throughdiaries kept by the informants in close relationship to the problem situations and were analysedqualitatively. Furthermore a literature survey was made in nursing infomatics and informationscience and it showed that there is no absolute common ground between the disciplinesin the way they use the information concept.The theory and method were validated in a broad outline and were very useful in the study ofcommunity health Nurses' information needs and use. The study also shows that the contextof community health Nurses plays an important role in the Nurses information behaviour..

Background: Studies showed differences in attitudes towards patients with mental illness in Nurses who worked in somatic care compared to Nurses who worked in psychiatric care. The Nurses in somatic care stated more negative attitudes to mental illness in relation to the Nurses in psychiatric care. Studies also showed that work experience affected attitudes towards mental illness. Nurses who often came in contact with people with mental illness had less negative attitudes and prejudices against mental illness. Aim: The aim was to examine the experiences from Nurses in somatic care, caring for patients who also have a psychiatric diagnosis.

Background The aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life for both the patient and her next of kin during the patient?s end of life. Palliative care rests on the four cornerstones managing symptoms, communication and relationship, teamwork and relative support. The Nurses? task is to assess the patients? physical, mental and spiritual needs according to these four cornerstones.Aim To assess Nurses? experiences of treating patients at the end of life.Method Eleven academic journals that respond to the aim has been analyzed and synthesized in a literature review in order to summarize current research on the subject.

Background:The definition of mental illness is characterized by a lack of management regarding mood, thoughts or behavior. It is difficult for the person to cope with everyday duties as well as relationships with other people.The study revealed that the society should take action to prevent social isolation for those with mental illness. The central concepts of care theory is love, learning and well-being, where Nurses' conditions and actions create results in the patient.Aim:Describe skills and prerequisites Nurses need at the meeting of patients with mental illness. A further aim was to examine the ethical considerations included studies made use of.Method:A descriptive literature studyMain result:Nurses feel they do not have skills regarding mental illness. When Nurses care for patients with mental illness are often formed stigmatizations regarding these patient groups and care will suffer.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe how Nurses experience meeting patients with self-injurious behavior in health care and the factors that influence Nurses' attitudes towards this particularly group of patients. The literature study also contains a review of the articles included datacollection method. Method: A descriptive literature review of quantitative and qualitative articles published between 2004 and 2014. The articles were sought in the databases PubMed and PsycINFO. The result of the present literaturestudy was based on 11 articles.Result:The Nurses experiences were mainly positive, however, the results also shows that they feel antipathy, negative emotions, inadequacy and obstacles in the care of patients with self-injurious behavior.

Background: Every patient and each situation is unique. Therefore the nurse has to act in a flexible intervention and still keep an ethical perspective. Aim: The aim of this studie was to illuminate Nurses? different aspects of decision making in emergency situations. Method: The result is based on nine scientific articles.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate how student Nurses seek and use information and libraries. Furthermore, I want to know how they think information can be used in their future occupation. Seven student Nurses were included in the study. A qualitative method with personal interviews was used. The analysis of the empirical material was made according to a socio-cultural perspective.

Background In Nyanza in western Kenya are 30,5% of children estimated as malnourished. It is a family situation that Nurses often come in contact with. Therefore it is of interest to know how Nurses work with parents of malnourished children when they have a significant role in developing the family's knowledge and child health. Aim. The aim is to investigate how Nurses experience that they are working with parents of malnourished children.

Background: An indisputable right for Nurses is to have a safe and secure work environment so they can deliver a high quality care. To bring a clear definition of what threat and violence are, is an important part in the work to prevent threat and violence. One part of the problem is that the experience and understanding of threat and violence can be different from one person to another. Aim: The aim of this quality study was to emphasize Nurses experience of threat and violence at workplace. Method: The method used in this study was qualitative interviews in the sense to bring out the Nurses experience.